LOUTRAKI - Kanounistra - 2002

Loutraki, Kanounistra (Konstantinidi property). Z. Aslamatzidou-Kostourou (Δ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on renewed excavation of the bath which lay 25m northeast of the Roman villa on the Sega property. Six principal rooms were revealed, arranged in series north to south, plus three service areas. At the north was a corridor containing a terracotta water channel. Next came the north praefurnium linked via an air conduit with the apsidal hypocaust chamber which contained a marble bath above the conduit and a swimming pool in the apse. Next was a rectangular room preserving the hypocaust and traces of the floor above. These two rooms were heated by a second praefurnium to the west which was defined by a wall and had two stoking tunnels beneath the apsidal room. Next was another apsidal room with a terracotta tiled floor. In the southern part of the complex is a rectangular room with a hypocaust linked to two more rooms, to the south and west, via air conduits. The west room had a stone floor and a stoking runnel (for a praefurnium).

The excavation produced many pieces of marble (some in situ), column bases and architectural members, with a particular concentration in the area of the second praefurnium. Other finds include an Early Roman (first/second-century) limestone protome of a young girl, and a second-/first half third-century terracotta lamp from the rectangular room.

Excavation of the villa and bath complex concluded in 2002 without being completed. Z. Aslamatzidou-Kostourou has subsequently published a synthesis of results of the recent campaigns in the proceedings of the 2009 conference The Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnese.